Colleen Moriarty, Executive Director of Hunger Solutions MN, sits down with Access to Democracy host Steve Francisco to discuss how this amazing nonprofit organization is working in coalition with other anti-poverty and anti-hunger advocates to end hunger in our state. Colleen has spent most of her remarkable career dedicated to the fight against poverty and has spent the past twenty years leading Hunger Solutions MN.
In this interview, she tells us about how the MN Food HelpLine connects people with local foodshelves, how the Food Shelf Capacity program supports foodshelves, and how the innovative Market Bucks program helps customers increase their buying power. Colleen and her coalition at Partners to End Hunger won a huge victory at the Legislature in 2023 with the passage of the Universal Free School Lunch program. Colleen is retiring at the end of February after a remarkable career.
